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Gilmore Girls :: Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out (06x08)
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| Title: | Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out |
| Episode #: | 06x08 |
| Production Number: | 2T6308 |
| Original Airdate: | Tuesday November 08th, 2005 |
*Also Known As: - Freischwimmer (
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Oct 24, 2006 |
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Rory is pleasantly surprised when her old flame Jess appears at her grandparents' house and reveals an amazing development in his life. Rory agrees to go to dinner with Jess, and when Logan unexpectedly joins them, an ugly confrontation develops, leaving both Rory and Logan to face the choices they have made. Emily is concerned about Rory's sudden evasiveness and tries to exert some parental discipline. Meanwhile, Luke agrees to sponsor a local girls' soccer team and Lorelai channels all her concerns about Rory into caring for her dog, Paul Anka.
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On The Futon Critic's top episodes of 2005, this episode was ranked #29.
| Milo Ventimiglia (Jess) and Matt Czuchry (Logan) previously worked together on the series Opposite Sex.
| Jess says that he's been in Philidelphia. Coinsidentally, Milo Ventimiglia, who plays Jess, was on American Dreams, a series set in Philidelphia, during the 2004-2005 season.
| This is the first appearance of Milo Ventimiglia (Jess) since season 4's "Last Week Fights, This Week Tights".
| Rating: 3.9/9
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| Artist | Song Title | Played When | | •Kingston Trio | Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley | |
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Jess: This is about you, Rory! This isn't you. What are you doing living at your grandparents? You don't want to be in the DAR! And what are you doing with that jerk? He has a Porsche! We used to make fun of people like that!
| Emily: You're becoming more like your mother every day.
Rory: You're becomg more like my mother's mother every day.
| Jess: I know you Rory. I know you better than anyone.
| Emily: When your father gets home, we're going to talk about the house rules and we're going to be on the same page, once and for all.
Rory: You mean my Grandfather.
Emily: You know what I meant.
Rory: Well, I'd have to be living at the house to have house rules.
| Lorelai: Why? Did I say I didn't like red?
Luke: I think your exact words where "better dead, then red".
Lorelai: 'Cause I'm liking red now.
| Lorelai: "L" is for Lorelai.
Luke: "L" is for Luke's.
Lorelai: Hey, our names have the same first letter.
| Lorelai: Where do we go if we feel like making out in the middle of the game?
Luke: I don't think they'd mind if we did it right here in front of them.
Lorelai: Cool.
| Emily: Don't you dare take that tone out on me, young lady!
Rory: I'm sorry Grandma, but you're forcing the tone out.
| Rory: Jess, you've got such a great brain. I knew that if you could just sit down and stop shaking it around that you could do something like this. I knew it, I knew it!
Jess: I know you did.
| Jess: (to Rory) I just wanted to show you that....and tell you that I couldn't have done it without you.
| Soccer Girl: She went one way, and her knee went the other!
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Jess drops by for a surprise visit after Rory after she drops off Colin, Finn, and Logan when the bars close. Bars close very early in the morning, so Rory was arriving home somewhere between 2 and 3 in the morning. That early is a strange time for Jess to drop by.
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Rory: It's one thing to be forced to live in the big house, but now the big house is feeling Tom Thumb tiny.
Tom Thumb is the name of a traditional hero, who was smaller than his father's thumb, popular in English folklore.
| Episode Title: Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out
The title comes from the Beatles' song "Back in the USSR".
| Lorelai: I think you've got the Queer Eye my friend.
Lorelai is referencing the TV series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
| Rory: I think she's a Cylon.
Cylons are human robots in the TV show Battlestar Galactica.
| Luke: I want my girls to look good.
Lorelai: Listen to Daddy Warbucks.
Daddy Warbucks is the wealthy man who takes in Annie in the cartoons, musical, and movie Annie.
| Lorelai: Bend it like Beckham!
Lorelai is referring to the movie Bend it Like Beckham about an 18 year old Sikh girl runs off to Germany with a soccer team.
| Jess: (to Rory) You graduated already, Doogie?
Doogie, played by Neil Patrick Harris, was the main character of the TV series Doogie Howser M.D., who was a child genius that became a doctor at age 16.
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